This month Benoît Marchal launches a second Working XML project. The new project, called HC (short for Handler Compiler), will take some drudgery out of event-based XML parsing by automatically generating the SAX ContentHandler for a list of XPaths. This installment of the column describes the requi
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MinML-RPC, Sandstorm XML-RPC framework
Recent developments in the XML-RPC world include a new release of the small-footprint Java XML-RPC stack, MinML-RPC, and the continuing development of Sandstorm, a component system built on XML-RPC.
UBL: Yet another business language?
Starting a new thread on XML for business, let me introduce yet another XML vocabulary for business terms, the Universal Business Language (UBL). After several interest groups have pushed their definitions, through the respective implementation in their products, we ended up with a handful of partly
Oracle unveils weapons against IBM, Microsoft
By Wylie Wong – Looking to jump-start sales in the face of stiff competition and a sagging economy, Oracle is set to disclose plans for new software and a revamped version of its flagship database-management application at a customer conference in San Francisco next week.
Oracle mends fences with US user group
After 18 months of tension between Oracle and the Oracle Application Users Group (OAUG) in the US, the relationship is now on the mend, declared OAUG president Jeremy Young at its annual meeting.
Oracle To Give Sneak Peek Of Database
Oracle will give a sneak peek of the next release of its flagship database at its Oracle OpenWorld conference in San Francisco next month. The preview of Oracle9i Release 2 comes as the vendor wrestles with slowing database software sales and increasing competition from IBM and Microsoft.
Sun Touts Web Services Play
By Richard Karpinski – Guess where J2EE is heading? The next version of the Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition, will support an array of XML-based Web services standards.
Elements Revisited
by John E. Simpson – Element names and content models can be tricky things. This month, we'll start by revisiting a DTD question that came up in September. Q: How do I enforce a range of occurrences of one element inside another?
Living documents with XML events
Most documents today are living documents in the sense that they are constantly updated and never finished. With the advent of HTML and Web browsers documents became also living in that they can interactively respond to events. Now this kind of life comes to XML documents with the newly standardized
Microsoft Bolsters .Net Strategy With Developer Tools
By Aaron Ricadela – Gates debuts 'software as a service' strategy at professional developers conference in LA.Gates previewed .Net My Services, Microsoft's vision of how software will be delivered as a service in the future. Microsoft also outlined the Global XML Web Services Arc